Metadata record for National Education Longitudinal Study: Base Year Through Fourth Follow-Up, 1988-20003955
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2015-03-03National Education Longitudinal Study: Base Year Through Fourth Follow-Up, 1988-2000395510.3886/ICPSR03955.v1United States Department of Education. National Center for Education StatisticsPlease see full citation.
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2004-05-20National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS) Series2006-01-182006-01-18 File MN3955.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.2006-01-182006-01-18 File CB3955.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. National Education Longitudinal Study: Base Year Through Fourth Follow-Up, 1988-2000. ICPSR03955-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03955.v1academic achievementadolescentsaspirationscareer goalscognitive functioningcurriculumeducational environmenteducational opportunitieseducational testingeducational trendsemploymentfamily backgroundhigh school studentshome environmentjob historyjunior high school studentslearningparental influenceschool attendanceschool dropoutssecondary educationself conceptsocioeconomic statusstudent participationteacher student relationshipteacherstest scoreswages and salariesyoung adultsICPSR.V.ARCMD.III
This data collection presents base year through fourth
follow-up data for the National Education Longitudinal Study (see
NATIONAL EDUCATION LONGITUDINAL STUDY, 1988 [ICPSR 9389], FIRST
FOLLOW-UP, 1990 [ICPSR 9859], SECOND FOLLOW-UP, 1992 [ICPSR 6448]),
and THIRD FOLLOW-UP, 1994 [ICPSR 6961]. In addition, these data
sustain continuing trend comparisons with NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY
OF THE CLASS OF 1972 (ICPSR 8085) and HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND, 1980
(ICPSR 7896, 8297, 8443, 8896). NELS:88/2000 collected information on
this cohort's accomplishments 12 years after the eighth-grade baseline
survey. The 2000 data were collected at a key stage of life
transitions for the eighth-grade class of 1988 since most had been out
of high school for nearly eight years and many had already completed
postsecondary education, started or even changed careers, and started
families. Part 1, Student-Level Data, includes universe variables,
base-year, first and second follow-up student components, school
variables at the student level, second and third follow-up early
graduate supplement and student-level transcript variables, first,
second, and third follow-up dropout components, base-year and second
follow-up parent components, and third and fourth follow-up
questionnaires and derived variables. Part 2, Postsecondary Education
Attendance Data, provides information for third and fourth follow-up
respondents on attendance at postsecondary institutions. Part 3,
Postsecondary Institution Data, supplies information about
institutions applied to or attended by fourth follow-up respondents
regarding sector, tuition/fee deciles, and enrollment. Part 4,
Postsecondary 1994 Education Attendance Data, provides information for
third follow-up respondents on attendance at postsecondary
institutions, including enrollment dates and major fields of study.
19882000Please see geographic coverage.United StatesAll eligible United States eighth graders in spring 1988,
tenth-graders in the 1989-1990 school year, twelfth-grade students
during 1991-1992, and students who in 1994 were two years out of high
school and in 2000 were eight years out of high school.survey data, and event/transaction data
The base-year survey in 1988 was a clustered, stratified
national probability sample of 1,052 public and private eighth-grade
schools with almost 25,000 students across the United States
participating. For the first follow-up in 1990, 21,000 students were
sampled and an additional parent survey was added. The second
follow-up in 1992 also included a school records component. In each
survey, multiple respondent populations were surveyed: students
(including dropouts), their teachers, their parents, and their school
administrators. In the 1990 and 1992 follow-up studies, a freshened
sample was included to achieve a representative sample of the
respective age group in the nation. The fourth follow-up study in 2000
began with a sample of 15,237 individuals, subsampled from the
sampling frame of 15,964 individuals used for the third follow-up
study in 1994, thus removing 647 third follow-up nonrespondents from
the frame. At the end of the data collection for the study, a second
subsample of study nonrespondents was drawn to limit bias resulting
from interview nonrespondents. The subsample included 386 fourth
follow-up nonrespondents selected from American Indian and Alaskan
Native, Black non-Hispanic, Hispanic, and dropout strata.
(1) personal and telephone interviews, (2)
questionnaires, (3) test scores, (4) out-of-school rounds:
computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technology, and (5)
follow-up: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) technology
The codebooks and supplemental documentation are
provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF
file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be
accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is
provided on the ICPSR Web site.
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Student-Level DataPostsecondary Education Attendance DataPostsecondary Institution DataPostsecondary 1994 Education Attendance Data